Questionable Advice & Advertisements

~ The San Francisco Call, February 12, 1911

~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921

~ Correct Social Usage: a Course of Instruction in good Form, Style and Deportment, by Eighteen Distinguished Authors, 1906

~ Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, Including Social, Commercial and Legal Forms, Letter Writing, Invitations, &c., also valuable suggestions on Self Culture and Home Training., by Richard A. Wells, 1891
via Internet Archive

~ Manners and Conduct In School and Out, by The Deans of Girls in Chicago High Schools, 1921
via University of Oregon

The Home and Farm Manual; A New and Complete Pictorial Cyclopedia of Farm, Garden, Household, Architectural, Legal, Medical and Social Information, by Hon. Jonathan Periam, 1884
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~ Hints on Etiquette, by Charles Wm. Day, 1843

~ Correct Social Usage: a Course of Instruction in good Form, Style and Deportment, by Eighteen Distinguished Authors, 1906

~ Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia; Sunday, February 28, 1904
via Trove

“Don’t wear jewels in the morning. The nobody’s do, and if you glitter in daylight you will be taken for a nobody.”

~ The Bazar Book of Decorum: The Care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials, by Robert Tomes, 1870
via Internet Archive

~ Etiquette; Or, A Guide To The Usages of Society, by Count Alfred D’Orsay, 1843

~ Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, Including Social, Commercial and Legal Forms, Letter Writing, Invitations, &c., also valuable suggestions on Self Culture and Home Training., by Richard A. Wells, 1891
via Internet Archive

~ Etiquette for Americans, by A Woman of Fashion, 1898

~ Correct Social Usage: a Course of Instruction in good Form, Style and Deportment, by Eighteen Distinguished Authors, 1906

~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847